Week 6: WWII & Epistolary Fiction

We’ll wrap up our exploration of WWII with a reading of Address Unknown, by Katherine Kressman Taylor. We will continue epistolary fiction with 3 short stories by Emma Donoghue’s short story collection Astray.

Jump to…

• Tuesday
  • Before Class
  • In Class
• Thursday & Address Unknown
  • Before Class
  • In Class
• Weekly Writing
• Commenting / Online Discussions
• REMINDER: Continue work on your WWII writing project and presentation.

Tuesday, October 1

Before Class

• Weekly writing for Week 4 (Last Letters) due by start of class; submit your post URL in Canvas.
• Commenting / Online Discussions
  • Refer to the list from last week, comment on students that are 3 and 4 below you.
  • Be sure to use our FYS183 group in Hypothes.is.
  • Once you’ve commented on your three students, post their names in Canvas.
• Continue work on your WWII writing project and presentation.
• Epistolary Fiction
  • Review epistolary novel in Wikipedia.
  • Read the introduction to Address Unknown.
  • Optional: Read Address Unknown available on reserve.

In Class

• Read and discuss Address Unknown.
• More Love Letters
  • Letters to Strangers
  • The world needs more love letters
  • Letter #2
• Continue work on your WWII writing project and presentation.

Thursday, October 3

Before Class

• Sign up for and read one short story from Emma Donoghue’s Astray.
  • ‘Counting the Days’ is based on the 1840s correspondence of two emigrants from Northern Ireland to Canada.
  • ‘Onward’ is suggested by several letters from Charles Dickens about a family he helped to emigrate to Canada.
  • ‘The Gift’ is inspired by letters to a New York adoption agency from the birth mother and adoptive father of a little girl.

In Class

• Activity and discussion with short stories
  • Pecha Kucha template: make own copy
  • Uses blank layout (open for adding own background, images, text boxes, etc.)
  • Once complete, we are going to use ‘Publish to Web’. Go to File >> Share >> Publish to Web. Configure as seen below:
    • Auto-advance slides: Every 10 seconds
    • Check: Start slideshow as soon as the player loads
    • Click on ‘Publish’
  • Copy the link to this document.
• Introduce Creative Writing Assignment
• Due next week: WWII writing project and presentation.

Weekly Writing

1. This weekly writing should focus on any reading/activity/exercise/etc that you found particularly interesting this week.
2. Weekly Writings will be due by Monday of each week.
3. Submit your post URL in Canvas.